intermitto
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From inter ("between") + mittō ("to send").
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /in.terˈmit.toː/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈmɪt̪ːoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.terˈmit.to/, [in̪t̪erˈmit̪ːo]
Verb
[edit]intermittō (present infinitive intermittere, perfect active intermīsī, supine intermissum); third conjugation
- to interrupt
- to stop (temporarily)
- to omit
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.24:
- militesque hortaretur, ne quod omnino tempus ab opere intermitteretur
- And he encouraged the soldiers not to omit to work for a moment
- militesque hortaretur, ne quod omnino tempus ab opere intermitteretur
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of intermittō (third conjugation)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: intermit
- Italian: intermettere
- → German: intermittieren
- Old French: entremetre
- Spanish: entremeterse
- → Swedish: intermittera
References
[edit]- “intermitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “intermitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- intermitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus)
- to work without intermission: laborem non intermittere
- not to leave off work for an instant: nullum tempus a labore intermittere
- not to interrupt the march: iter non intermittere
- to interrupt the battle: proelium intermittere
- to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus)